Some actors or sensors kept having connection issues and some others simply were out of the radio range. The goal was to get a power adapter connected 2 levels under our apartment and get rid of all those warning messages.

Cosnidering the small antenna of the Homematic CCU2 in the below pictures (yes, this tiny black thing is the …

All you guys with fitness trackers, smart watches or who are just interested in IoT may know the function to track daily personal water consumption through mobile apps or widgets on the wearable devices. There is just one problem: People are lazy and so am I 🙂 (For those of you who are too lazy to read, scroll down to the video showing the result)

I decided to use my old iPad2 as a smart home console. Have been looking around for a ‘clean’ and simple wallmount which I could install in the entrance area of our flat. Finally I found this one here at Amazon:

Today I would like to quickly present one of my current projects, i.e. adding the Raspberry Pi wired with different kind of sensors to IP Symcon. With the sensor data in IP Symcon we can log changes and generate reports upon those, for instance. So we are getting data from the Raspberry Pi, or -to be more precise we push data from the Pi to IP Symcon by invoking JSON …